The Zoo Post of the Year

[eMarkM]

I can't believe no one mentioned this yet. It was early in the year, so like Oscar candidates those early releases tend to be forgotten.

Thread of the Year, Can Party Poker 4th and 5th street cards be predicted?, aka Pattern Map. Ulysses started the fire storm on the top of page 2.

That hoax was so elaborate, yet completely spontaneous, so it seemed plausible. It sucked so many people in and spawned many sub-threads for months and in fact spread beyond IG and 2+2 into internet legend. You can still do a search on "pattern map" in the past few weeks and see posts on it.

[TylerD]

I did!!

[RollaJ]

My bad, thought it was a 2003 thread